People & Music Industry

By: Sound On Sound
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  • Welcome to the Sound On Sound People & Music Industry podcast channel. Listen to experts in the field, company founders, equipment designers, engineers, producers and educators. More information and content can be found at https://www.soundonsound.com/podcasts | Facebook, Twitter and Instagram - @soundonsoundmag | YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/soundonsoundvideo
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Episodes
  • Genelec UNIO
    Oct 29 2024

    Genelec's new UNIO PRM (Personal Reference Monitoring) solution ensures reliable and consistent monitoring across multiple environments. In conversation with Sam Inglis, R&D Director Aki Mäkivirta and Regional Business Development Manager Andy Bensley explain how UNIO integrates existing technologies such as SAM (Smart Active Monitoring), GLM loudspeaker manager software and Aural ID binaural headphone monitoring with the new 9320A reference controller and Genelec's first ever pair of headphones.

    Chapters
    00:00 - Introduction
    00:21 - About The UNIO Ecosystem
    01:53 - 9320A Reference Controller And 8550A Headphones
    04:53 - How Aural ID Works
    07:17 - Secondary Referencing
    11:08 - Is Emulating Control Room Acoustics Desirable?
    14:03 - Why We Still Need Monitors
    15:33 - Head Tracking Capabilities
    17:02 - Incorporating UNIO Into An Existing Studio
    18:48 - Professional Tools For Home Studio Use
    20:20 - Personal Aural ID Settings
    23:37 - Designing The 9320A Reference Controller
    26:18 - Developing The 8550A Headphones
    30:39 - Setting Up For The Best Workflow
    32:40 - Future Developments

    Genelec Biog
    Since 1978, Genelec active studio monitors and subwoofers have delivered truthful, neutral sound reproduction - enabling engineers and creatives to make accurate and reliable mix decisions, even in challenging rooms.

    Founded in Finland by childhood friends Ilpo Martikainen and Topi Partanen, the company’s first monitor, the S30, instantly became the blueprint for Genelec’s future direction. Its active design delivered consistent performance, total reliability, and the ability to adapt to the acoustic environment it was operating in.

    The following decades have seen a string of technically innovative Genelec releases, from the now-legendary 1031A nearfield model to the latest coaxial point source models from The Ones family. Genelec’s growing range of Smart Active Monitors work closely with GLM calibration software, allowing each monitor to be completely optimised for the room, producing mixes that translate consistently to the outside world.

    https://www.genelec.com/

    Aki Mäkivirta joined Genelec in 1995. He originally worked for the Nokia Research Centre and teamed up with Ari Varla of Genelec during a joint venture between the two companies, where Mäkivirta demonstrated how to replace analogue filters with digital processing using the 1031A nearfield monitor. As a result, Mäkivirta joined Genelec to pioneer the creation of the original 8200 series of Smart Active Monitors, before becoming R&D Director in 2013.

    Andy Bensley joined Genelec as Regional Business Development Manager in 2019. Based in the UK, Andy has huge experience in analysing and tuning the in-room performance of loudspeaker systems in a wide range of studios – from the smallest bedroom to the largest post production studio.

    Sam Inglis Biog
    Editor In Chief Sam Inglis has been with Sound On Sound for more than 20 years. He is a recording engineer, producer, songwriter and folk musician who studies the traditional songs of England and Scotland, and the author of Neil Young's Harvest (Bloomsbury, 2003) and Teach Yourself Songwriting (Hodder, 2006).

    Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

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    35 mins
  • Universal Audio
    Oct 8 2024

    Universal Audio - Behind The Brand
    As CEO of Universal Audio, Bill Putnam Jr has pioneered some of the most important innovations of the last 35 years. In conversation with Sound On Sound's Sam Inglis, he traces the Universal Audio story back to its founding by his father Bill Putnam Sr in 1958. We hear how and why Bill Jr decided to relaunch the Universal Audio brand, and how they moved from meticulously recreating Bill Sr's analogue designs to cutting-edge digital modelling, culminating in today's launch of the latest generation of Apollo recording interfaces.

    Chapters

    • (00:00) - - Introduction
    • (00:25) - - Bill Putnam Sr.
    • (04:24) - - A Natural Entrepreneur
    • (05:49) - - From Physics To Electrical Engineering
    • (10:44) - - Early Technological Hurdles
    • (12:46) - - Digitally Emulating Analogue Equipment
    • (14:39) - - The Challenges Of Emulating Tape And Speakers
    • (17:35) - - The SHARC Processing Chip
    • (18:18) - - The Endurance Of DSP Platforms
    • (20:44) - - Developing The Apollo Audio Interface
    • (21:47) - - The Advantages Of Thunderbolt
    • (23:16) - - Adding DANTE To The x16D
    • (25:02) - - The New Generation Of Apollo Interfaces
    • (26:09) - - Multichannel Speaker Calibration With Sonarworks
    • (28:21) - - Getting Digital Corrective EQ Accepted
    • (29:43) - - Townsend Labs And Mic Modelling
    • (30:40) - - The Bock Microphone Range
    • (32:26) - - The Motivation For Creating LUNA
    • (36:55) - - Developing Products For Guitarists
    • (38:46) - - The Next Steps For Universal Audio

    #ApolloInterface #Sonarworks #x16D

    Universal Audio Biog
    Universal Audio was founded in 1958 by Bill Putnam Sr., a passionate innovator and favourite recording engineer of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles and more. Putnam was the inventor of the modern recording console, the multi-band audio equaliser and the vocal booth, and he was the first engineer to use artificial reverberation in commercial recording. Alongside his friend Les Paul, he was also involved in the early development of stereophonic recording. Many of his legendary studio and equipment designs are still in use today.

    Universal Audio was re-founded in 1999 by Bill's sons, James Putnam, a skilled audio engineer and Bill Putnam Jr, who earned a degree in Electrical Engineering. Their two main goals were to faithfully reproduce classic analogue recording equipment in the tradition of their father and to design new digital recording tools with the sound and spirit of vintage analogue technology. Their award-winning products include the UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform and the Apollo audio interface, first introduced in 2012. Universal Audio is headquartered near Silicon Valley in Scotts Valley, California. A few miles away in Santa Cruz is the Universal Audio Custom Shop, where their classic analog gear is still hand-built, one unit at a time.

    Sam Inglis Biog
    Editor In Chief Sam Inglis has been with Sound On Sound for more than 20 years. He is a recording engineer, producer, songwriter and folk musician who studies the traditional songs of England and Scotland, and the author of Neil Young's Harvest (Bloomsbury, 2003) and Teach Yourself Songwriting (Hodder, 2006).

    Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

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    45 mins
  • Augmented Instruments Laboratory - Andrew McPherson
    Oct 1 2024

    Andrew McPherson is a composer and Professor of Design Engineering and Music in the Dyson School of Design Engineering, based at Imperial College. Here he talks to Nick Rothwell about the Augmented Instruments Laboratory, a music technology research team that he leads, whose ongoing projects include the Magnetic Resonator Piano and the Bela open-source platform.

    Chapters
    00:00 - Introduction
    00:30 - A Background In Composition And Electronic Engineering
    01:57 - The Magnetic Resonator Piano
    09:50 - TouchKeys USB Touch Sensor
    13:05 - Developing Ideas Within A Community
    15:47 - Using The Piano Within Different Genres
    17:19 - Bela Open-Source Hardware Platform
    22:15 - Augmented Instruments Laboratory
    23:50 - Laurel Pardue / Augmented Violin
    25:15 - Getting Nuanced Performances
    26:22 - Overcoming Latency Issues
    27:31 - Future Predictions

    Andrew McPherson Biog
    Andrew McPherson is a computing researcher, composer, electronic engineer, and musical instrument designer. He is Professor of Design Engineering and Music in the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, where he leads the Augmented Instruments Laboratory. Andrew holds undergraduate degrees in both engineering and music from MIT, an MEng in electrical engineering from MIT, and a PhD in music composition from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Imperial in 2023, he has been a professor in the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London.


    Andrew’s musical instruments are widely used by performers and composers across many genres, and his research has led to three successful crowdfunding campaigns and the spinout of Augmented Instruments Ltd, which develops Bela, an open-source audio maker platform. He currently holds two fellowships: a Senior Research Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering on embedded hardware for audio and music, and an ERC/UKRI Consolidator Grant investigating the cultural implications of engineering decisions. He is deeply committed to teaching: Bela is used in the classroom by dozens of universities, and his online course on audio programming has been followed by learners around the globe.


    https://andrewmcpherson.org/
    https://instrumentslab.org/

    Nick Rothwell Biog
    Nick Rothwell is a composer, performer, software architect, coder and visual artist. He has built media performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt and Vienna Volksoper, composed sound scores for Aydın Teker (Istanbul / Kapadokya), Shobana Jeyasingh, AWA Dance, Luz&Mannion Dance (Flamenco) and Undercurrent Theatre, programmed physical media sculptures with Simeon Nelson and Rob Godman, live coded in Mexico and in Berlin with sitar player Shama Rahman, collaborated with the body>data>space collective in Prague, Paris and Dresden, written software for Studio Wayne McGregor, Beinghuman in Kathmandu, the Pina Bausch Foundation and Nesta's FutureFest, consulted for Tate Modern, and developed algorithmic visuals for large-scale outdoor projections in Poland, Estonia, the Cambridge Music Festival and Lumiere (London / Durham). He has taught design at CODE Berlin and currently runs the Computer Science undergraduate course at University of the Arts London.


    Nick Rothwell - Project Cassiel - https://cassiel.com


    Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

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    31 mins

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